Dear Colleagues,

Precipitation associated with atmospheric convection as well as long-lasting stratiform precipitation may cause significant economic damage and endanger the health and lives of populations every year.

Heavy rainfall is a typical dangerous phenomenon, which leads to flash floods. It is often accompanied by lightning activity and characterized by fast development and local character. Another endangering phenomenon is long-lasting precipitation, which covers large areas that may result in large-scale flooding.

Prediction methods of these phenomena make use of various forecasting models—from those based on the extrapolation of the current state of the atmosphere to those sophisticated that use weather forecasting models to describe physical processes in the atmosphere. An important input to the prediction methods are data from meteorological radars. Operating meteorological radars provide us with information on the distribution of rainwater and other hydrometeors in the atmosphere, which is the key information to extrapolation methods. In addition, most radars also measure the Doppler velocity, which provides us with additional information on cloud movement. The information on both the distribution of hydrometeors and cloud movement are important input data for numerical forecasting.

Dr. Zbyněk Sokol
Guest Editor

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• meteorological radars
• precipitation nowcasting
• precipitation forecast
• numerical weather prediction models
• data assimilation
• severe convective storm